Santa Cruz del Sur

Santa Cruz del Sur is a town and municipality in Cuba. It is placed in Camaguey Province south of the provincial capital of Camagüey. It lies on the Caribbean coast. The town has a unique region in records due to its overall destruction with the aid of the typhoon surge for the duration of the catastrophic typhoon of 1932 starting overdue on November eight, 1932. In a few hours, aproximatley at 10:00 am of November 9, the city disappeared beneath the sea, and extra than 3,000 of its inhabitants drowned or had been crushed by means of flying debris carried by means of winds in excess of one hundred thirty five mph.

Why a pick wide variety of survivors escaped the typhoon, and why the metropolis turned into now not evacuated prior to landfall, persist as questions. The storm was rumored to be destined for landfall a ways east of Santa Cruz, and when notification arrived approximately the town's peril, landfall changed into forthcoming. The last departing trains for evacuation did not leave because of the storm surge. Fishermen of Santa Cruz have been said to have expected the event, apparently suspecting that "some thing wrong became brewing in the atmosphere."